From: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
To: zhuzhenhua <zzh.hust@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: does the linux support rootfs on vfat?
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 09:09:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060305080958.GX19232@lug-owl.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50c9a2250603042217l475e84pc9ab7ce87c40eb76@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 2006-03-05 14:17:56 +0800, zhuzhenhua <zzh.hust@gmail.com> wrote:
> if in my product based ide disk, i want to it to support the
> u-disk(with vfat fs), and can i set the root fs as vfat too?
> if use vfat as rootfs, what's disadvantage of the selection?
Well, most notably you won't have device nodes. Maybe a ram-backed
filesystem mounted to /dev/ could solve that, but you'd probably need
an initrd for that to do.
MfG, JBG
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-05 8:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-05 6:17 does the linux support rootfs on vfat? zhuzhenhua
2006-03-05 8:09 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw [this message]
2006-03-05 11:22 ` Ralf Baechle
2006-03-06 16:49 ` Geoff Levand
2006-03-06 17:08 ` P. Christeas
2006-03-06 12:36 ` Stuart Longland
2006-03-06 16:41 ` Geoff Levand
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